Places / August 2006
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Our Big Backyard, Conservation Week
- Pataka
- Conservation week, which was opened by the Hon Chris Carter, was a fantastic success with over 1200 school children visiting Pataka during the week. Pataka also played host to 22 adult public programmes and staged conservation exhibits throughout the spine. The library was also home to various exhibitions as well as hosting various children and adult conservation programmes.
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- exhibitions
- museums-and-galleries
- porirua
Pātaka Art + Museum, Parumoana Street, Porirua City Centre, Porirua, Porirua City, Wellington, 5022, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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End of Season Prizegiving
- Brooklyn Northern United AFC
- Saturday 9th September 7pm at the Mornington Golf Club. We'll the curtains are now slowly closing on the footy season - but of course that can't happen until we have a bloody great bash! Last years was fantastic and this...
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- brooklyn
- soccer
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Bringing it back
- WellUrban
- As Kegan pointed out, there's a story on the front page of today's Dominion Post about the council reconsidering the placement of the indoor stadium: they're now thinking of putting it on the edge of Harbour Quays rather than way out at Kilbirnie. So it's almost come full circle, as the site is adjacent to the location originally proposed!
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- indoor-sports-centre
- kilbirnie
Kilbirnie, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, New Zealand/Aotearoa (OpenStreetMap)
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Karked it
- WellUrban
- Krazy Lounge has Konked out. There's a sign on the door saying "Sorry, Krazy Lounge is closed forever. R.I.P.", and the inside is currently being used as a temporary sale shop for the appropriately-named fashion label Insidious Fix.
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- cuba-street
- restaurants-and-bars
Cuba Street, Te Aro, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6011, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Rogainers Undeterred by Storm
- Wellington Orienteering Association
- With a southerly storm battering the region and houses collapsing in Lower Hutt, it was amazing that anyone turned out to the rogaine tonight! But 40 took on the steep bush tracks surrounding Wainuiomata and lived to tell the tale...
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Wainuiomata, Lower Hutt, Lower Hutt City, Wellington, New Zealand/Aotearoa (OpenStreetMap)
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125th Anniversary of Wellington Hospital
- Wellington Health Foundation
- The Wellington Health Foundation congratulates Wellington Hospital on its 125th Anniversary. Using prison labour, building of the first hospital began in 1876, but it was officially opened in 1881 and patients were transferred from the old Thorndon Hospital to the Newtown site between from June that year. To celebrate the anniversary the Foundation [...]
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Thorndon, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Carnival consent
- WellUrban
- The Cuba Street Carnival has just been granted an open-ended consent to operate as an annual event. It may remain as a biennial event, though, since the organisers prefer to avoid competing with the Arts Festival.
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- cuba-street-carnival
Cuba Street, Te Aro, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6011, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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